Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Listopia > Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists (25 Books)

1	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine 4.09 avg rating — 6,632 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 18,709 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Antidote by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 14,238 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 1,388 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Palaver by Bryan Washington 3.72 avg rating — 3,275 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 46,963 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe 4.59 avg rating — 1,077 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.36 avg rating — 7,873 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 850 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas 4.38 avg rating — 1,165 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi 4.48 avg rating — 99 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Becoming Ghost: Poetry by Cathy Linh Che (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 224 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Scorched Earth: Poems by Tiana Clark (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 497 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken 4.34 avg rating — 798 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 115 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle 4.11 avg rating — 5,353 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 3.74 avg rating — 1,403 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 2,770 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 132 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno 4.20 avg rating — 15,773 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff 3.85 avg rating — 653 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 912 ratings "Young People's Literature" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri 4.19 avg rating — 2,203 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 279 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 967 ratings "Young People's Literature" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars